Voting for Tunisia's first local council elections began on Sunday. Voting started at 8 a.m. local time (0700GMT) and will last for 10 hours in 4,685 election centers set up in 2,155 regions across the North African country. More than 9 million voters are expected to cast their ballots...

Protesters across different Arab and Palestinian cities took to the streets for the third consecutive Friday in solidarity with Gaza. A demonstration took place in the Jordanian capital Amman, where crowds called for the closure of the Israeli embassy.  Large crowds also protested...

 Libya’s chief prosecutor said Monday he ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams earlier this month, a disaster that sent a wall of water several meters high through the center of a coastal city and left thousands...

Abdel-Hamid al-Hassadi survived the devastating flooding in eastern Libya, but he lost some 90 people from his extended family. The 23-year-old law graduate rushed upstairs along with his mother and his elder brother, as heavy rains lashed the city of Derna on the evening of Sept. 10. Soon,...